I was not aware of the Google Primary Maps 2008 code project. And they do have several scripts to read. However, they were probably written for very specific needs. I bet that project was disbanded immediately after the U.S. election and had their programmers move to the next one. Google received a lot of attention for their (very cool) real-time tracking map-based mashups.
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/index.html For geodata conversion, I would recommend GDAL/OGR. It's an open source project that is essentially the backbone of data i/o for all FOSS geo packages. It's small, fast, efficient, and has an active community supporting it. I have access to some high-priced GIS software and I use GDAL/OGR whenever I can! OGR contains the vector-based (points, lines, polygons) routines and drivers. (GDAL for rasters.) OGR supports read/write capabilities for many formats, including: ESRI shapefile GeoRSS (Simple and GML) KML GeoJSON ..and many others... Personally, I think it'd be great if Exhibit could support the basic geometries (points, lines, polygons) in KML and GeoRSS Simple. - John Jon Crump wrote: > David, John, et al. > > I think adding kml support to Babel is a great idea! Nice! > > I think expanded GIS data views will be very helpful in exhibits, and I'm > working on polygons for my timeline/googleMaps mashup as well. > > You may already be familiar with this project. These folks have a number > of useful things at: http://code.google.com/p/primary-maps-2008/ > > Without installing any sort of big GIS tool, I found this python script > particularly handy: > http://code.google.com/p/primary-maps-2008/source/browse/trunk/shpUtils.py > which suggested to me that it might be possible to induce Babel to handle > ESRI shapefiles as well. > > Unfortunately, shapefiles for medieval manorial boundaries are not exactly > thick on the ground. ;-) > > Jon > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
